Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room—until you change that with results.
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“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.”
― The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
― The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
“There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.”
― All My Sons
― All My Sons
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